Updating an electroanatomical map

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10176630-B2
Application number	US-201615370327-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 6, 2016
Priority date	Dec 6, 2016
Publication date	Jan 8, 2019
Grant date	Jan 8, 2019

Abstract

Described embodiments include a system for updating a mesh, which includes a plurality of vertices, representing a surface of a heart. The system includes an electrical interface and a processor. The processor is configured to define a plurality of sample points on the mesh, such that a density of the sample points is greater than a density of the vertices, to receive, via the electrical interface, a plurality of signals from a catheter, the signals indicating an electrical property of each of a plurality of locations on the surface, and to update the mesh in accordance with the electrical property, by, for each of the locations, identifying a closest sample point to the location, subsequently, identifying, in a portion of the mesh in which the closest sample point is located, a closest point to the location, and, subsequently, associating the closest point with the electrical property of the location.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system for updating a mesh representing an electroanatomical map of a surface of a heart, the mesh including a plurality of vertices, each vertex representing a first value of an electrical property at an anatomical location of the heart, the system comprising:
an electrical interface; and
a processor, configured:
to define a plurality of sample points on the mesh, such that a density of the sample points is greater than a density of the vertices;
to receive, via the electrical interface, a plurality of signals from an intrabody catheter, the signals indicating as second value of an electrical property of each of a plurality of locations on the surface of the heart; and
to update the mesh in accordance with the second value of the electrical property, by, for each particular location of the locations:
identifying a closest one of the sample points, which corresponds to a location that is closest to the particular location, relative to other ones of the sample points,
subsequently, identifying, in a portion of the mesh in which the closest one of the sample points is located, a closest point, which corresponds to a location that is closest to the particular location, relative to other points in the portion of the mesh, and
subsequently, associating the closest point with the electrical property of the particular location.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to define the sample points by uniformly sampling the mesh.

3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to define the sample points by sampling the entire mesh.

4. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to organize the sample points in a space-partitioning data structure, and wherein the processor is configured to identify the closest one of the sample points by querying the space-partitioning data structure.

5. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the portion of the mesh consists of a tile in which the closest sample point is located, and a plurality of neighboring tiles that surround the tile in which the closest sample point is located.

6. The system according to claim 5 , wherein the neighboring tiles include each tile in the mesh that shares at least one vertex with the tile in which the closest sample point is located.

7. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to update the mesh by dividing a tile of the mesh that contains the closest point into a plurality of tiles that share a vertex located at the closest point.

8. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to update the mesh by recoloring the mesh in accordance with the electrical property.

9. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to update the mesh without changing a topology of the mesh.

10. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to identify the closest point by calculating a distance between the particular location and each plane corresponding to a respective tile in the portion of the mesh.

11. A method for updating a mesh representing an electroanatomical map of a surface of a heart, the mesh including a plurality of vertices, each vertex representing a first value of an electrical property at an anatomical location of the heart, the method comprising:
using a processor, defining a plurality of sample points on the mesh, such that a density of the sample points is greater than a density of the vertices;
receiving a plurality of signals from an intrabody catheter, the signals indicating a second value of an electrical property of each of a plurality of locations on the surface of the heart; and
updating the mesh in accordance with the second value of the electrical property, by, for each particular location of the locations:
identifying a closest one of the sample points, which corresponds to a location that is closest to the particular location, relative to other ones of the sample points,
subsequently, identifying, in a portion of the mesh in which the closest one of the sample points is located, a closest point, which corresponds to a location that is closest to the particular location, relative to other points in the portion of the mesh, and
subsequently, associating the closest point with the electrical property of the particular location.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein defining the sample points comprises defining the sample points by uniformly sampling the mesh.

13. The method according to claim 11 , wherein defining the sample points comprises defining the sample points by sampling the entire mesh.

14. The method according to claim 11 , further comprising organizing the sample points in a space-partitioning data structure, wherein identifying the closest one of the sample points comprises identifying the closest one of the sample points by querying the space-partitioning data structure.

15. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the portion of the mesh consists of a tile in which the closest sample point is located, and a plurality of neighboring tiles that surround the tile in which the closest sample point is located.

16. The method according to claim 15 , wherein the neighboring tiles include each tile in the mesh that shares at least one vertex with the tile in which the closest sample point is located.

17. The method according to claim 11 , wherein updating the mesh comprises dividing a tile of the mesh that contains the closest point into a plurality of tiles that share a vertex located at the closest point.

18. The method according to claim 11 , wherein updating the mesh comprises updating the mesh by recoloring the mesh in accordance with the electrical property.

19. The method according to claim 11 , wherein updating the mesh comprises updating the mesh without changing a topology of the mesh.

20. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the processor is configured to identify the closest point by calculating a distance between the particular location and each plane corresponding to a respective tile in the portion of the mesh.

Assignees

• Biosense Webster Israel Ltd

Inventors

• Cohen Assaf
• Ilan Ido
• Massarwi Fady

Classifications

• G06T2210/41

  Medical · CPC title

• G06T17/205

  Re-meshing · CPC title

• A61B5/743

  Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots · CPC title

• G06T19/20

  Editing of three-dimensional [3D] images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts · CPC title

• G06T2219/2012

  Colour editing, changing, or manipulating; Use of colour codes · CPC title